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Ten Years After – My Slate Diaries in the wake of 9/11
Posted on September 10, 2011 | 1 CommentIn the days before everyone's grandmother had a blog, the Slate Diaries were one of the internet's greatest outlets for interesting writing from widely disparate voices. I was asked by Slate to be a weekly diarist a month before 9/11, and when I scheduled my week for early October, I couldn't have anticipated that America and the world would be in such a soul-searching and somber mood.
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The Blood of Eden
Posted on January 9, 2011 | 6 CommentsI caught sight of my reflection I caught it in the window I saw the darkness in my heart I saw the signs of my undoing They had been there... -
For “Shower Customer Number Nine”
Posted on December 26, 2010 | 7 CommentsYou can almost hear the collective sigh. It’s the day after Christmas, and it’s Sunday, and it’s quiet. Christmas is a funny holiday. Pegged to the old pagan winter solstice... -
Requiem for Reality
Posted on August 23, 2010 | No CommentsEmerson said, “…wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things.” It’s in his essay, “Nature,” and he was talking about the sacrifice of sacred truth... -
Reach for the Sky
Posted on August 21, 2010 | 3 CommentsIt was four or five obsessions ago—before film noir, before the Iraq War, before Enron and the Italian neorealists and vegetarian cooking the Army-McCarthy hearings—that I really plunged into the... -
Harder Than It Looks: The Quest for the Bell
Posted on August 3, 2010 | 2 Comments“Now remember, don’t say “Hi y’all’,” Bernice, the head hostess told me. ”This is a classy place. We always say ‘good evening’”. It was my first week on the job...